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dipenates

Being Friends Is Telling Each Other The Truth

Jun 16, 2010 00:17

Title: Being Friends Is Telling Each Other The Truth
Fandom: Brothers & Sisters
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~2,000
Characters: Kevin Walker/Scotty Wandell, ensemble
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Spoilers: Through 4.24: "On the Road Again".
Summary: Written for lgbtfest prompt: Five times Kevin felt like his family discriminated against him .
Warning: Homophobia.

( Being Friends is Telling Each Other the Truth )

meta: fic, length: ficlet, character: kevin walker, theme: lgbt, fandom: brothers & sisters, theme: family of origin

Comments 14

ladybugkay June 16 2010, 05:27:09 UTC

Yes. This. The Walkers could and probably would be just this way with their homophobia -- casually and unintentionally callous and hurtful.

Kevin is my favourite Walker, and you've completely captured his cynicism and self-doubt, as well as his vulnerability and his inability to stop thinking. Great job.

dipenates June 16 2010, 19:50:28 UTC

Thank you so much.

srtawalker June 20 2010, 23:54:47 UTC

Wow. This is different and hard.

What I liked most was Tommy´s part

And I love this: But there was something that didn't quite make sense in Nora's account. That felt like the lid of Scotty's blue plastic storage container, the one that never quite fit snugly, but always popped up along one edge.

dipenates June 21 2010, 07:33:20 UTC

Thank you!

katydid417 June 22 2010, 03:01:47 UTC

this is amazing. you've managed to capture the character of kevin so perfectly (which i believe to be quite a difficult thing to do!). i loved how each walker was quietly homophobic, almost without even realizing it. this was a great piece; i loved that you explored just a little bit of this theme.

dipenates June 23 2010, 17:27:51 UTC

Thank you!

sthlmsyndrom June 22 2010, 12:18:50 UTC

This was so in character! I loved reading this!

dipenates June 23 2010, 17:28:05 UTC

Thanks very much.

csmars June 29 2010, 01:19:00 UTC

I really enjoyed this. Reading some of the comments, I feel that I didn't perceive this piece the same way some others have. When I first started reading, i was like "aww, poor kevin, I just wanna give him a hug." But as I got more into it, I don't think this is a story about homophobia or even sub-conscious homophobia that each Walkers have; I think it's just about being human. Everyone have prejudices about everyone else. I remember when I was younger and at this (fairly liberal) diversity leadership summer camp and one of the camp leaders was saying that the last prejudice he had to overcome was about "rednecks." And that was a powerful awakening which made me examine myself. And for sure, I have prejudices against conservatives and republicans, just as I'm sure Kevin does for Kitty and his dad and Saul and the McCallisters (even including Jason, I think ( ... )

dipenates September 26 2010, 15:35:54 UTC

Thanks for commenting, and sorry that I am only replying now. I managed to miss your comment in my inbox.

I don't think this is a story about homophobia or even sub-conscious homophobia that each Walkers have; I think it's just about being human. Everyone have prejudices about everyone else.

I agree that everyone has prejudices, and that this is part of the way that everyone is socialised.

The difference between assuming (for example) that all Republicans will be anti-choice and being prejudiced against gay people is that there are no power differentials in the former example, and there are in the latter. All societies are set up in a way that privileges straight people. Straight people are normalised, and all of the institutions and social norms exist around straightness.